A close encounter with Beyonce for Shrewsbury woman

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Feb 1, 2018 at 3:01 AMFeb 1, 2018 at 11:21 AM

Courtesy of WCVB-TV

A Shrewsbury woman's mug has gone viral after she found herself face-to-face with a queen ... the "Queen Bee", that is.

Susan Monaghan of Shrewsbury was in New York last weekend staying with her family in the same hotel as superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z, who were there for a pre-Grammy party, when on the way to her room, Monaghan spotted an entourage as

"I turn and I look and I am like Beyonce," Monaghan said.

Monaghan told WCVB. "And I was frozen."

In the hotel hallway as she was returning to her room, Monaghan saw an entourage and heard a man's voice.

"This man says, 'Do I know you?' So I looked at him and I was like, 'I don't think so.'" Then Monaghan realized she was in the presence of the husband-and-wife superstars.

But in her shock Monaghan says she didn't taken a photo, so she had no proof she'd met the stars.

"I met Beyonce, but I didn't take a selfie no one is going to know," Monaghan recalled thinking.

Monaghan talked to her daughter after the encounter.

Jenn Hiit recalled her mother saying, "You will never guess who I met. I was like, 'who'?'"

Her mother said, Jay-Z and Beyonce.

"I was like, 'your right I don't believe you'," said Hitt.

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That was until Beyonce posted on Instagram photos from the Grammys. One of the photso reveals the super-surprised look Monaghan's face during the encounter and how shell-shocked she was at seeing the couple.

More than 5 million people have now looked at the post.

"I didn't even know what a meme is," Monaghan said. "Now, everyone is like you are famous, and I'm like what?"

It was a dream come true for Monaghan, as she had hoped to catch a glimpse of a big star while in the Big Apple. Monaghan says she has only has one regret from her moment with the stars.